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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 259 (search)
ish a perfect control over the telegraph, (if kept up,) so that no despatch can pass without your knowledge and inspection before it is sent. If troops from Ohio and Pennsylvania shall be attempted to be passed on the railroad, do not hesitate to obstruct their passage by all means in your power, even to the destruction of the road and bridges. Having confidence in your discretion, I am sure you will manage all things wisely and well. Yours truly, John Letcher. Col. Porterfield, Grafton, Va. The following is a letter written by Porterfield, in pursuance of the above instructions, to Col. W. J. Willey, whom the Federal troops now have a prisoner at Phillippi: Grafton, May 25, 1861. Dear Colonel: From information just received, it is essential to the safety of my command that the bridges be destroyed as far west as possible. You will please proceed on the next train, and have it carried into effect without delay. Yours, G. A. Porterfield. To Col. Willey. -
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 9 (search)
Colored Cavalry. Discharged, Jan. 24, 1866. Welch, Frank mark. Born at Philadelphia, Penn., Oct. 22, 1841. Sergeant and First Sergeant, 54th Mass. Infantry, May 12, 1863. Second Lieutenant, Apr. 28, 1865; mustered, June 3. First Lieutenant, June 20, 1865; mustered, July 22. Mustered out, Aug. 20, 1865. Second Lieutenant, 14th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, Sept. 29, 1865. Discharged, Dec. 6, 1865. Weld, Francis Minot. Appointed from Massachusetts. Served in Post Hospital, Grafton, Va., with 6th West Va. Volunteers. Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Navy, June, 1862, to date from May 22, 1862. Resigned, Dec. 13, 1863. Relieved from duty, Jan 11, 1864. Major, Surgeon, 27th U. S. Colored Infantry, Apr. 22, 1864. Mustered out, Sept. 21, 1865. Died at Jamaica Plain, Mass., Dec. 31, 1893. Wentworth, George E. Commissary Sergeant, 30th Mass. Infantry, Oct. 2, 1861. First Lieutenant, 4th La. National Guards, Feb. 17, 1863. Regiment changed to 76th U. S. Colored Infantry, Ap
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Narrative of the service of Colonel Geo. A. Porterfield in Northwestern Virginia in 1861-1861, (search)
A Narrative of the service of Colonel Geo. A. Porterfield in Northwestern Virginia in 1861-1861, Charleston, W. Va., May 17, 1888. To General Marcus J. Wright: At your request I submit the following statement: I was living upon my farm, in Jefferson county, when our civil war began. In May, 1861, I was appointed Colonel of Volunteers, and ordered to Grafton, Virginia, to receive into the service of the State, from the northwestern counties, such volunteers as might offer their services for the defence of that section. By reference to Volume II, Series 1, Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, it will be seen that Alonzo Loring, of Wheeling, David Goff, of Beverley, and F. M. Boykin, of Weston, had been commissioned as field-officers by the Governor of Virginia and assigned to duty in the northwestern part of this State, with written instructions from General R, E. Lee prior to my assignment thereto. I would call attention to the instructions given these gentle
The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sad and Fatal accident. (search)
Affairs in Northwestern Virginia. --A special dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette, dated Grafton, Va., June 20, gives a Northern view of matters in that section: I came back from Phillippi this evening. Communication is beginning to be threatened between Grafron and Phillippi. Mounted parties sent out last and Tuesday nights to engage the enemy's pickets, were fired upon Tuesday night by an ambuscade of the enemy, which instantly retreated. Last night a large party drove in the pickets, and then sent forward Ex-Speaker Gordon, late private in the 9th Indiana Regiment, now Major of the U. S. Army, and Horace Bell, hoping to draw out the enemy. These men, altogether unsupported, rode up until the enemy's camp sentries fired. They returned the fire. After a large number of shots were exchanged, which the darkness kept from being effective, they challenged the enemy to come out, and a perfect war of words ensued. The enemy couldn't be coaxed out. The party found the gr
The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The traitors. (search)
Doings in the Northwest. --The correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, under date of June 23d, furnishes the subjoined items from Grafton, Va.: The Confeds are getting "sassy." At Phillippi the pickets keep up a constant skirmish, and yesterday one of the guards of an Indiana regiment was killed while on duty. Last night three privates in Company I, Ohio Twentieth, were shot at the first station west of Glover's Gap, where they were guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Road. They were shot in the breast, two of them, it is feared, mortally wounded. To-day, when the artillery were out practising, but a little way from here, over the northern hills, they were fired into by a mounted scout of the rebels, who had pushed out that far on the road from Phillippi. Some of our Ohio boys are after them, and it is hoped will bring them in. The pickets report this evening that they have been fired upon. Lieut. Hamilton, with ten men of Company K, Ninth Indiana Regiment, went o
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway (search)
has been changed to the McClellan, in honor of the Federal General. She is attached to the quartermaster's service, and will soon sail with prisoners for Tortugas, Fla. The Philadelphia Inquirer is informed of the stoppage of several colliery works, in consequence of the low price of anthracite coal. John W. Orr, of Wheeling, Va. has been arrested on suspicion of giving "aid and comfort" to the Confederates. Nine Confederate prisoners were brought to Wheeling on Saturday from Grafton, Va. Jeff. Thompson being told that Hecker had offered a reward for his head, replied, "Sorry I cannot return the compliment, for I would not have his as a gift." A definite arrangement is understood to have been made in Missouri, by which all the prisoners taken on each side, in the late battle, are to be released. A man named Spencer, of Cincinnati, has it is stated, invented a submarine bomb that can be thrown into the water, and will explode after it is submerged. Danie
The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seizure of a Southern vessel. (search)
d Ohio Railroad, East of Piedmont, anticipated an attack at daybreak yesterday morning from the rebels at Romney, but none came. The pickets had been firing upon one another there for several days.--There are only about six hundred men at New Creek, including the Ringgold Cavalry. A battery of artillery, however, was sent down there yesterday morning. Proclamation of Gen. Kelly. Brigadier General Kelly has issued the following order: Headquarters District of Grafton, Grafton, Va., Sept. 7, 1861. The General commanding desires to reassure the people of Western Virginia that it is the desire and intention of the United States Government to give to the citizens full and ample protection in all their civil and political rights, and that private property, of whatever character or description, shall be held inviolate. In order to secure to the owners of slaves the most ample protection that can be given, as well as protect the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from
The Daily Dispatch: May 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
4th, and 20th regiments New York volunteers arrived in this city, and were received by multitudes of citizens, military and civic processions were formed, banners unfurled, salutes fired, and various manifestations of delight exhibited. Between four and five thousand emigrants from Europe arrived at this part last week.--The Monarch of the Seas, from Liverpool yesterday, had 923. During the voyage there were four births and three deaths. Miscellaneous. It is asserted, from Grafton, Va., that the rebels have left that part of the State. The Wheeling Intelligencer says they have captured great quantities of horses, cattle, and other booty, and are now advancing on Parkersburg. Col. Jacobs had been whipped by Morgan, with heavy loss, at Lebanon, on the 11th. A Vallandigham "sympathizing" meeting had been held in New York. James Brooks made a speech, in which he said New York and New Jersey were the only free States left. The news from Europe is five da
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